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New date set in local shooting case

A Coffeyville, Kan., man has been set for another hearing on charges of shooting a Bartlesville man in 2011.

Cody Michael Stephenson, 23, is now set for Feb. 20 for a hearing on charges of shooting with the intent to kill, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and felonious possession of a firearm. He had previously waived jury trial in the matter on Jan. 10.

Authorities allege that on July 30, 2011, officers were dispatched to the Willows Apartments in Bartlesville where they found a man who had been “shot multiple times” lying on the sidewalk. A bloody trail reportedly led to an apartment that had apparently been forced open, and police say they found more blood and spent bullet casings inside. Police say the apartment belonged to the injured man and that he had been inside when “suspects broke open his locked front door and they shot him inside his apartment.”

The man reportedly told police that one of the males, later identified as Stephenson, had a gun and shot him in the groin area. He said he then retreated to his bedroom closet where “he later woke up and discovered he was bleeding badly and he had also been shot through his head.” He said he then “stumbled out of his apartment where he sought help by banging on several apartment doors.”

When interviewed later, the man reportedly told police that on the day in question he had played “a gambling dice game” with two black males earlier in the day. He said he later went back to his apartment and went to sleep but was awakened by “a loud sound.” When he investigated, he saw that the same two males were in his apartment, police say.

According to the affidavit, a story in the Examiner-Enterprise then led to a positive identification of Stephenson.